Can Hughes HDVR2 input and output share a line?

[sfirth]

Greetings,

I wonder if anybody has any knowledge/experience in sharing an input and output line from the Huges HDVR2? The reason I ask is because we have a fitness room where we would like to view our Tivo'd fitness programming. The fitness room has coax running to the outside of the house. However, I don't want to run another line out of my TV room, because it means drilling through 9" of concrete.

So, I had this thought. I would take 3 bi-directional splitters. Lets call them splitter 1, 2, & 3. If I were to place splitter 1 on the output of my receiver, one output goes to the TV, and the other output goes to splitter 2. Splitter 2 is connected to one of the lines coming into the the receiver from the multiswitch, and to the line going into the receiver. Now, we go outside. Splitter 3 is connected to the line coming out of the house that splitter 2 is connected to, and it is also connected back to the multiswitch and to the line that goes into the Fitness room TV.

So, basically we have one of the lines coming in from the dish sharing the digital signal from the dish (signals from the receiver to the dish too), and the analog output from the receiver.

Sorry to be so long. Will this work? Moreover, do I risk frying my equipment?

Thanks,
sfirth

[John T Smith]

As far as I know, a SPLITTER does not work with DirecTv at all on the input line

The signal processing is not the same as cable, where a splitter does work, due to the nature of the LNB at the dish

[Finnstang]

People use diplexers to combine antenna signals to a satellite coax and then another diplexer to split them up again. Maybe this would work for what you are trying to do as well.

[Vin]

Greetings,

I wonder if anybody has any knowledge/experience in sharing an input and output line from the Huges HDVR2? The reason I ask is because we have a fitness room where we would like to view our Tivo'd fitness programming. The fitness room has coax running to the outside of the house. However, I don't want to run another line out of my TV room, because it means drilling through 9" of concrete.


You CAN send the the RF signal back through the same line, i.e., one of the sat lines that's feeding the DTiVo.

The way to do this is to feed the sat line from it's source, e.g., the multiswitch, into the single-port side of a diplexor (diplexor #1), NOT A SPLITTER. Then run a cable from the sat leg of that diplexor into the single-port side of another diplexor (diplexor #2) that will be located near the DTiVo and route that line from the sat leg of that diplexor (#2) into one of the inputs of the DTiVo.

Now, connect the RF output from the DTiVo to the antenna leg of that diplexor (#2) which will then be carried by the same sat line that's feeding that diplexor (#2).

The antenna leg (of diplexor #1) at the multiswitch will now carry the signal from the DTiVo for distribution.

[JimSpence]

I have used a diplexer to backfeed the RF on the sat line. Works quite well. Just make sure you use power pass diplexers on the sat leg only.